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Showing posts with label TNG. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TNG. Show all posts

Wednesday, 3 April 2013

First Contact Weekend Round the Corner


We all like a trek holiday and the next notable one this week is to celebrate the movie "First Contact" starring the Next Generation Crew, where they go back in time to try and stop the borg from assimilating the earth and they meet up with the creator of the first warp capable vessel Zephram Cochrane.

The campsite, Bar and Vulcan ship where Cochrane was suppose to have first met the vulcans has been recreated in Phoenix Stations Holomatrix deck, events will be held between  Friday 5th to Sunday 7th, listen out for group notices in the GFC sims and free gifts may be on offer.

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Friday, 5 October 2012

How We Celebrated TNG 25th Anniversary.


This weekend we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the premiere of the series Star Trek: The Next Generation by having a set version of 10 forward made and placed in the Roddenberry Centre.  Throughout the weekend, people partied, hung out and reminisced about the series, crew and cast.

Everyone likes a bit of a dance including therabbit1971,Koreeah, Lillian Aries & Admiral (shake a leg) Cobramax.
There was a healthy stream of people coming through the bar door over the two days it was opened and actively manned, not only regulars came along but new people came down, enjoyed themselves and joined the group. The intention eventually would be to find a long term place for people to be able to access the bar when they feel like it, more than likely having it as a holodeck scene.

There was a little dare involved :)
Kudos to those that dare wear the man dress, Langy, Kal, Dustin and Snapper, we salute you.
Jaielan Resident created a copy of the skant outform which was a skirted outfit which could be worn by both men and women, so it was interesting to see which male avatars dared show their legs to the world and a couple took. the challenge.

For those who attended the bar over the festivities there were given a free geordie style visor primmed by Andy Ketterley.

Kal Aie models the free visor
This weekends General Meeting (GM) took place in a specially made set  based on Q's courtroom from the first TNG episode "Encounter At Farpoint". The meeting took the format of those reading their reports standing on a circular podium where a spotlight shines on them from above and they'd have to read their report in the manner of being interrogated by the Q. Once their reports were finished the rest of the attendees would be asked to vote if they were satisfied with the report by stating "aye" or "nay". It was a fun way of doing a GM and hopefully more of this kind of thing could be done in the future.

Sodak reading his report in the spotlight under the watchful eye of the GM chair
Quinn Game mastered a special TNG rp playing the role of  Jean-Luc Picard, the story had Wesley being kidnapped and the crew of the enterprise went on a mission to find him, it was later found that the Q's were involved and one of the continuum came to the ship and took their captain.

The rest of the crew were made to justify humanities existence by being teleported to Q's court and one by one asked to exonerate their actions in the spotlight, wrong answers could have them and the rest of the crew removed from existence in the universe, but fortunately the Q's took pity on them, regarding the crew of the enterprise as a backward mishmash of races who are likely to do more damage to themselves than others. The Q's sent both Wesley and the captain back to the nearest earth starbase and allowed the rest of the crew to return to their ship.

So many twists and turns to puzzle together in The Next Generation RP
Overall it was a fun weekend and congratulations to TNG for standing the test of time.


Photos of the events 

RP Log

Event credits:
Organiser 
Debbydo

10 Forward Engineers
langy moorlord, Ebitsu Cliffhanger, Richmerk Resident

Q's Court Engineers
Richardjrn Weatherwax, Noshoes Baran, Dave Fearguis, Songlord

TNG RP Game Master/players
Quinn Serupta (GM), snapper Desade (GM), hawaii lyre, ai kikuchiyo
Nathen Rexen, littleastro, Debbydo, Koreeah Resident (Kendra Mollsen)
Banker Ibor, Lillian Aries,Nevertheless1 Resident, Jin Aonifall

Gifts
Andy Ketterley, Jaieden Resident, Koreeah Resident (Kendra Mollsen)

Bar Entertainment
Debbydo, snapper Desade

Saturday, 29 September 2012

Celebrating 25th Anniversary At The GFC


Its hard to believe Star Trek the original series is 46 years old, but 25 years ago this week was another milestone, it was when the next generation blasted on our tv screens. You remember those screens, the boxed shaped one which actually had buttons on them where you could change channels and we use to simulate stereo by shaking our heads left and right very quickly.

We all loved the charactors  Picard (sexiest man in the universe at one point if tabloid magazines were anything to go by), Riker (the man with the john wayne lean walk, more laid back than a reclining chair), Data (fully equipt android apprently), Troi (I'll try any alien male at least once), Beverley Crusher (And didn't we all have one on her), Wesley Crusher (we didn't have one on him, the traveller couldn't take him far enough away), Geordi (I can't see a thing but i'll do your electrics), Wolf (Today would be a good day to die, but trek aliens can't fight, can't aim, couldn't kill a fly that has already surrendered), Tasha Yah (seriously, you got killed by Tar man).

And to help celebrate we'll be getting into the spirit of things at the GFC with parties and events to remind us of how TNG helped spawned nearly 20 extra years of trek series.

To start things off a version of the Skant Uniform seen in the first episode has been given away to members in a group notice. The uniform was supposedly unisex, but people just called it the man dress.
Let see how many guys are daring enough to put it on. Me being as brave as a klingon at the heart of a battle, I flung it on quicker than a transvestite at Mardi Gras.

Left: Orginal from episode 1 - Middle: Free Gift to Members - Right: SnapperRealising he doesn't look good in everything.

Sunday, 16 September 2012

LeVar Burton - Geek & Sundry Interview

If your a fan of The Guild and Felicia Day you may know she has a newish youtube channel called Geek & Sundry. One of the many series they have on that channel is Sword & Laser which concentrates on reviewing books, their special guest this week was non other than LeVar Burton, TNG engineering chief and trek episode director.


Friday, 4 May 2012

TNG 25th Anniversary Reunion Calgary 2012

As you know its the 25th Anniversary of the first airing of Star Trek:The Next Generation, and throughout the year expect to see all sorts of events including those being planned at the GFC, but its not often you get a chance to see the whole TNG cast all on a stage at the same time. Fortunately now you can with these uncut videos which were shot during the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo. The camerawork is a little shakey at times but hey, we'll forgive them this time.


There are  two videos, the first is the whole principle cast and the second a hilarious panel with 
Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn and Jonathan Frakes